Apple is being sued by patent company Stec IP over patents that it holds referring to methods for synchronizing data, remotely accessing that data and more. The App Store, iCloud and iTunes are named in the suit as infringing on the patents.

The patent holding company also filed similar suits, though with a different mix of patents, against technology companies Oracle, Google and Amazon as well.

The company names most of the patents, including the key ‘481 patents, as infringed by three core Apple products, including iCloud, iTunes and the ‘Apple App Store’. STEC IP is a patent troll. They buy up patents from other companies and use them to sue other, preferably larger, companies for cash.

Apparently, STEC IP saw these companies as a good target for these data synchronization patents, though it will take at least some discovery filing before we see if these are essential enough to post a threat for Apple or the others.